Today is Thursday, Jan. 3, the third day of 2019. There are 362 days left in the year.
On Jan. 3, 1977, Apple Computer was incorporated in Cupertino, California, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Mike Makkula Jr.
1521
Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X.
1777
Gen. George Washington's army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.
1868
Japan's Meiji (may-jee) Restoration re-established the authority of the emperor and heralded the fall of the military rulers known as shoguns; the upheaval paved the way for Japan's drive toward becoming a modern power.
1938
the March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who himself had been afflicted with the crippling disease.
1958
the first six members of the newly formed U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held their first meeting at the White House.
1959
Alaska became the 49th state as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation.
1961
President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced the United States was formally terminating diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.
1967
Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, died in a Dallas hospital.
1980
conservationist Joy Adamson, author of "Born Free," was killed in northern Kenya by a former employee.
1993
President George H.W. Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the START II missile-reduction treaty in Moscow. (However, the agreement ultimately fell apart.)
2008
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama won Democratic caucuses in Iowa, while Mike Huckabee won the Republican caucuses.
2013
students from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, reconvened at a different building in the town of Monroe about three weeks after the massacre that had claimed the lives of 20 first-graders and six educators. The new 113th Congress opened for business, with House Speaker John Boehner re-elected to his post despite a mini-revolt in Republican ranks.